By your definition, Germany and Japan have been American "colonies" since the end of WWII. I suspect that they would disagree with that characterization.
I don't see Germans and Japanese shooting at Americans. Over 700 Americans have not been killed trying to hold onto Germany or Japan in the past 18 months. America has not killed over 10,000 German or Japanese civilians.
Just because the Germans and Japanese welcome American troops does not mean every other country in the world would too.
The situation is different, just like Vietnam was different (your choice of Germany and Japan was a nice example of using history selectively).
Of course we don't know how this will end.
But those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And I'm betting this is more of a Vietnam than a Germany.
In a way, I hope Kerry loses. Then the Reaganauts, Cheney and Rice and Bush, will finally, after all these decades, have to face the steaming pile of dung they've created with no one else to blame.
Amen to that. The only way to cure this disease of vicious moronism is to let it run it's course. Kerry would be the perfect scapegoat for Iraq and the economy if he won, clearing the way for some even more extreme neo-con to get into power.
You mean like Democrats have done since at least the post-Civil-War Reconstruction? (Most recent example I recall: feloniously "losing" California voter-registration-drive forms for anyone not signing on with any other party. But I could go on for pages, with 1 1/2 centuries to mine.)
Well, we only have to mention the Florida "felons" who were denied the right to vote in 2000 and will again be denied this year.
Both sides are equally guilty, and if there is one rhyme that repeats itself, it is that democracy is not taken seriously in this country.
One day that attitude will bite us in the ass big time.
Everybody should file a patent. Just choose some half baked idea. Doesn't have to be technical (you can probably patent your steak marinade or cocktail recipe for all I know, there must be slashdotters who can tell us what is and isn't patentable). I have a patentable design for a broccoli steamer....
You don't need a lawyer, just look at existing filings and mimic them. Pretty much anything will be accepted. The whole system would be brought down by the weight of it's own absurdity.
There is an old saying that a new technology has to be at least one order of magnitude better than anything exsiting to gain acceptance. Peppercoin fails the test.
- Windows actually works pretty well.
- Microsoft is not evil. No more than any other company out for profit.
- Recording artists & record companies are getting ripped off by file sharing.
if you are drinking it with lemon you are missing the whole point. The subtlety, depth and complexity of tea is totally lost when you add lemon.
When milk is added to tea an alchemical transformation takes place.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Anybody can do this. The oil industry for one has all kinds of telemetry networks. Typical gee whiz stuff for the mainstream press.
"Happiness through work" is one of the great delusions of the modern world. We work to pay the rent. If it was fun, people would do it for nothing in their spare time.
The two solutions are:
1. reduce the rent, allowing you to work less and giving you a wider choice of work.
2. With this extra choice you can work less hours or take a more rewarding job that pays less.
If you take option 2 you will still be bored after 2 years. But then if your rent is low, you have the freedom to move on. Or even take a break.
I do not have time to re-invent a linked list for the umpteenth time
This may be naive, but couldn't you just cut and paste your previously used linked list. It seems to me that the one thing that C++ in particular and OO in general has sacrifices is simplicity. In OO to create a linked list you define a class which inherits from another class (which inherits from another class??), then you create the object.
That is a lot of code. It becomes quite hard to understand what is going on when you do have a problem.If you just pasted in your previous linked list code, you will have a simpler program.
As I said, the one thing that is ignored is simplicity.
On a related issue, they don't support VB now, and as far as I can tell you can't even buy VB6 from Microsoft anymore. This gives a general impression of lack of backward compatibility.
It seems that for once the awesome microsoft marketing machine dropped the ball (probably complacency after after the W95,W98 and XP shock and awe campaigns). They are still trying to turn it around.
It probably cost $0.50 tax money for him to give you your change for $0.25.
Hows that then? Did he claim 50c in overtime or something? The guy took time out of his own day, and may have had work late to finish his round.
Someone does a good turn and all you can do is criticise. You cheapshot asshole.
The USPS is financially and often makes a profit. It's losses are funded by borrowing just like any other business. It doesn't receive a govt subsidy.
Everyone can just cycle and pay cash. Strangely, lowtech methods can often bypass high tech security. People who use technology are easily tracked, but those who don't can't.
Like the way Tony Soprano uses public telephone boxes to communicate.
Of course people will just be able to record the analog output anyway. Then the RIAA can bring back the pointless "home taping is killing music" campaign from the '80s. In those days every kid on the block had 10's to 100's of home taped albums.
The RIAA really should just face the fact that there is nothing they can do. Most people wouldn't have paid for the music they download for free. Those who pirate music are usually high school/college students who have time and no money. Most people who work hard can't be bothered to go to the hassle of pirating music when they can buy it.
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By your definition, Germany and Japan have been American "colonies" since the end of WWII. I suspect that they would disagree with that characterization.
I don't see Germans and Japanese shooting at Americans. Over 700 Americans have not been killed trying to hold onto Germany or Japan in the past 18 months. America has not killed over 10,000 German or Japanese civilians.
Just because the Germans and Japanese welcome American troops does not mean every other country in the world would too.
The situation is different, just like Vietnam was different (your choice of Germany and Japan was a nice example of using history selectively).
Of course we don't know how this will end.
But those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And I'm betting this is more of a Vietnam than a Germany.
In a way, I hope Kerry loses. Then the Reaganauts, Cheney and Rice and Bush, will finally, after all these decades, have to face the steaming pile of dung they've created with no one else to blame.
Amen to that. The only way to cure this disease of vicious moronism is to let it run it's course. Kerry would be the perfect scapegoat for Iraq and the economy if he won, clearing the way for some even more extreme neo-con to get into power.
You mean like Democrats have done since at least the post-Civil-War Reconstruction? (Most recent example I recall: feloniously "losing" California voter-registration-drive forms for anyone not signing on with any other party. But I could go on for pages, with 1 1/2 centuries to mine.)
Well, we only have to mention the Florida "felons" who were denied the right to vote in 2000 and will again be denied this year.
Both sides are equally guilty, and if there is one rhyme that repeats itself, it is that democracy is not taken seriously in this country.
One day that attitude will bite us in the ass big time.
Everybody should file a patent. Just choose some half baked idea. Doesn't have to be technical (you can probably patent your steak marinade or cocktail recipe for all I know, there must be slashdotters who can tell us what is and isn't patentable). I have a patentable design for a broccoli steamer....
You don't need a lawyer, just look at existing filings and mimic them. Pretty much anything will be accepted. The whole system would be brought down by the weight of it's own absurdity.
There is an old saying that a new technology has to be at least one order of magnitude better than anything exsiting to gain acceptance. Peppercoin fails the test.
I am a nonreligious gun loving Libertarian that favors a *very* small govenment(courts,cops and millitary)
Well there are lots of third world countries you can go and live in right now.....
Slashdot is is a pretty impressive groupthink machine.
- Windows actually works pretty well.
- Microsoft is not evil. No more than any other company out for profit.
- Recording artists & record companies are getting ripped off by file sharing.
Who says the more expensive players aren't the same machine, made in the same factory, with a Sony sticker on the cover.
What a load of bollocks.
Which bits of advice don't you like?
"Be careful about fixed bid projects?"
"Be careful about using bleeding edge technologies?"
All too often these days companies place too much emphasis on market research and number crunching and not enough emphasis on coffee.
Never underestimate the power of beer either.
Cheers!
(hic!)
The only difference between an established and bleeding edge technology is the level of support you MIGHT be able to find
The only difference is that the bleeding edge technology probably doesn't work.
Established technologies are established for a reason: they work.
if you are drinking it with lemon you are missing the whole point. The subtlety, depth and complexity of tea is totally lost when you add lemon. When milk is added to tea an alchemical transformation takes place.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Anybody can do this. The oil industry for one has all kinds of telemetry networks. Typical gee whiz stuff for the mainstream press.
http://www.sco.com/company/feedback/
Smart. Mod this up.
"Happiness through work" is one of the great delusions of the modern world. We work to pay the rent. If it was fun, people would do it for nothing in their spare time.
The two solutions are:
1. reduce the rent, allowing you to work less and giving you a wider choice of work.
2. With this extra choice you can work less hours or take a more rewarding job that pays less.
If you take option 2 you will still be bored after 2 years. But then if your rent is low, you have the freedom to move on. Or even take a break.
So you want some greedhead deciding how much tax you owe?
...open source is collectivised farming, with no private ownership of land. And look where that got the Rooskies.....
His analogy is crap. Second rate journalist hacking something out for a paycheck.
I do not have time to re-invent a linked list for the umpteenth time
This may be naive, but couldn't you just cut and paste your previously used linked list. It seems to me that the one thing that C++ in particular and OO in general has sacrifices is simplicity. In OO to create a linked list you define a class which inherits from another class (which inherits from another class??), then you create the object. That is a lot of code. It becomes quite hard to understand what is going on when you do have a problem.If you just pasted in your previous linked list code, you will have a simpler program. As I said, the one thing that is ignored is simplicity.
With the C++Ox or thay are just adding more gobbledegook. Take this from the link:
Controling Implicit Template Instantiation
Piling abstraction on abstraction. The language is more complex than the logic it is trying to implement.
It's posts like this that make me want to abandon Slashdot after 5 years
.NET 2003.
.NET.
Maybe you should read the post more closely. The guy was criticizing MSoft for confusing his bosses who then won't let him use
He is a fan of
On a related issue, they don't support VB now, and as far as I can tell you can't even buy VB6 from Microsoft anymore. This gives a general impression of lack of backward compatibility.
It seems that for once the awesome microsoft marketing machine dropped the ball (probably complacency after after the W95,W98 and XP shock and awe campaigns). They are still trying to turn it around.
It probably cost $0.50 tax money for him to give you your change for $0.25. Hows that then? Did he claim 50c in overtime or something? The guy took time out of his own day, and may have had work late to finish his round.
Someone does a good turn and all you can do is criticise. You cheapshot asshole.
The USPS is financially and often makes a profit. It's losses are funded by borrowing just like any other business. It doesn't receive a govt subsidy.
see http://www.usps.com/history/anrpt02/
Crawl back into your hole.
Everyone can just cycle and pay cash. Strangely, lowtech methods can often bypass high tech security. People who use technology are easily tracked, but those who don't can't.
Like the way Tony Soprano uses public telephone boxes to communicate.
Of course people will just be able to record the analog output anyway. Then the RIAA can bring back the pointless "home taping is killing music" campaign from the '80s. In those days every kid on the block had 10's to 100's of home taped albums.
The RIAA really should just face the fact that there is nothing they can do. Most people wouldn't have paid for the music they download for free. Those who pirate music are usually high school/college students who have time and no money. Most people who work hard can't be bothered to go to the hassle of pirating music when they can buy it.